Pulmonary toxicity in hamsters of smoke particles from Kuwaiti oil fires

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 141-146

  Brain, Joseph D ^a   Long, Nancy C ^a   Wolfthal, Susan F ^a   Dumyahn, Thomas ^a   Dockery, Douglas W ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Bronchoalveolar lavage; Gulf war; Kuwait; Lung; Particles; Smoke

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; HYDROCARBON; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MYELOPEROXIDASE; N ACETYL BETA GLUCOSAMINIDASE; OIL;

AIR POLLUTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FIRE; HAMSTER; HEALTH; KUWAIT; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG TOXICITY; MACROPHAGE; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKE; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; WAR;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE;

EID: 0031955102     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.98106141     Document Type: Article

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